حوار مع المخرجة السينمائية لينا سوالم.
Isis Nusair and Michael Morris
Isis Nusair is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & International Studies at Denison University. She is the co-editor with Rhoda Kanaaneh of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender Among Palestinians in Israel and translator of Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq. Her upcoming co-edited anthology with Barbara Shaw focuses on feminist collaborations in teaching and learning. She is completing two book manuscripts tentatively titled Permanent Transients: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan and the USA and Gendered Narratives of Crossing of Refugees from Syria in Germany. Isis is the co-writer/director with Laila Farah of the one-woman performance, Weaving the Maps: Tales of Survival and Resistance. She is currently researching the body of war in Syrian TV series post 2011. She serves on the editorial committee of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She previously served on the editorial committee of MERIP and as a researcher on women’s human rights in the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch and at the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. She is a member of the Transnational and Palestinian Feminist Collectives and Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
Michael A. Morris is a filmmaker, artist, and educator based in Granville, Ohio. His work responds to the rapid changes in how moving images are created and experienced in the 21st century, affirming the traditional space of experiencing cinema while also exploring the implications of new media. Morris has performed and screened his films and videos at museums, galleries, microcinemas, and film festivals internationally, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, The International Symposium of Electronic Art, Microscope Gallery, and Artist's Television Access. He has received awards from Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Southern Colorado Film Festival, Haverhill Film Festival, and Athens International Film and Video Festival among others. He serves on the programming committee for Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas, Texas. Morris is Assistant Professor of Cinema at Denison University and a member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine.